Magomero
Magomero is an estate and a village in Malawi.[1] It is situated south of Zomba.
History
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John Buchanan, a planter who also brokered land sales by local chiefs. Of this land, 162,000 acres formed the estate that he named Magomero, after a village that David Livingstone had recorded in the same area during his Zambezi expedition.[2][3]
References
- ^ White 1989, p. 1.
- ^ http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc11777.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ J McCraken, (2012). A History of Malawi, 1859-1966, pp. 77-9.
Bibliography
- White, Landeg (14 September 1989). Magomero: Portrait of an African Village. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-38909-9.
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